Harrison L5 Lathe Restoration

[mmcmdl]

It's a real shame that Photobucket decided to change their terms and hold all your photos hostage, I see it on many useful forum posts these days where all the pictures have been locked by photobucket until the original poster pays them!

I'm going thru this now . Years of pictures that I can't retrieve , looking for a new place to post pictures but now I'm afraid I'll lose them also .

 

[Laytonnz]

I unfortunately lost abit of love for the project when i kept finding major issues, but to my surprise everything worked first try! I had intentions of making a spash back attaching the name.plates painting feature things on the machine new handles ... that will unfortunately never happen along with a few other things but oh well it runs! And yeaj photo bucket sucks. If i could be botherd i would reupload them

 

[mmcmdl]

And yeaj photo bucket sucks. If i could be botherd i would reupload them

I have 13 years worth of pictures on there . Shop pics , clearing the land up in NY , sports pics from my children , the dogs etc . I'm not sure I backed them or if I still have the cards to upload them again . If I remember correctly , photobucket wouldn't even allow you to download your pics from their site .

 

[TrevTheEng]

Hello to all, I am a new member!
I was taught the fundamentals of Lathe work on a L5 in Bournemouth Tech College. in the late 50s
Later I came across a Harrison L5 in a Army Truck in Singapore the Nuts to fix the lathe to the stand were painted RED !
Then found one on a HMS Frigate same nuts were painted Red
I was a serviceman at the time!
When I settled down in Civy street My wife purchased for me a second hand L5 from a local Tech College, Puzzled by the memory of the red Bolt/Nuts I made enquirers with Harrison Company .
I was told that Most of the models were made portable for military use so the lathe was fixed and adjusted to the very heavy base and warned never to undo the fixings, this pleased me so I fitted wheels to my assembly.I have since moved it many times over rough concrete The accuracy stayed the same.
I believe some of the cheap China Lathes have been made similar but have not confirmed it
I hope this may help some folk.

 

[SouthernChap]

Another 'Subject of His Majesty', excellent.

Welcome from a fellow Brit.

We've had a nice little influx recently of British members. It's good to have more people on here that know what is meant when the terms "fettle", "clock" and "blunt as old Harry" are used.

Yeah, I remember reading on Tony Griffiths' website (lathes.co.uk) about Harrison being very particular about the way they fitted their lathes to stands/cabinets and that the advice was never to separate the two if at all possible.

If you fancy, pop over to the Introduction section and tell us about yourself and for bonus points, include pics of your workshop and machine tools (it'll be no surprise that we're all pretty much tool junkies on here and love to see photos of other people's workshops and kit).

 

[TrevTheEng]

Thank you SouthernChap for your reply.
I will do just that as soon as I am a little better, Not going into to details fever and fatigue at moment so staying in my house.
I have photos some place of my wheels and a quick but very useful tool holder.
Ps I call my Lathe Butey ! but most engineers I have known are a little bit wanting I know I am.
Regards
TrevTheEng